## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1/04/24 Period start date To Period end date** ## **31/03/25** ## **Charity name: Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Helpers** ## **Charity registration number: 1196962** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**1. Prevention or relief of**
**poverty,especially food poverty,in the**
**area of benefit.**
**2. Advancing the education of the public**
**including with regard to horticulture and**
**the environment**
**3. Promoting facilities for recreation and**
**leisure in the interests of social welfare in**
**order to improve residents’lives**
**4. Advancing such other charitable**
**purposes as the Trustees see fit**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**1. Tackling food poverty, social isolation**
**and loneliness by operating a weekly**
**Community Cafe providing a free three**
**course meal created by volunteers using**
**principally donated food.**
**2. Tackling food poverty by supporting a**
**small foodbank and working with a local**
**Food Pantry.**
**3. Addressing loneliness and social**
**isolation among older people with a face**
**to face befriending service**
**4. Improving the lives of local residents**
**by facilitating social gatherings such as**
**holding a regular coffee morning at a**
**sheltered accommodation complex.**
**5. Helping people living with dementia,**
**cognitive impairment and carers by**
**holding two weekly music, movement**
**and social sessions**
**6. Keeping residents informed of useful**
**services, local news and forthcoming**
**events and activities by a regular**
**newsletter deivered to 4,200 households**
**in Tarleton and Hesketh Bank, and by our**
**social media page.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit**| Commission on public benefit ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**During this reporting period, the Charity**
**has consisted entirely of volunteers.**
**Apart from the Trustees themselves, the**
**Charity has more than 80 volunteers**
**working in our Community Cafe,**
**Befriendling Service and Dementia**
**Friendly Music, Movement and Social**
**group. Withoit the contribution of these**
**volunteers, the Charity would not be able**
**to deliver its services**| |Other||**n/a**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**1.**
**The Charity supports in a number**
**of ways a local foodbank which**
**has provided relief to local**
**families and migrant workers who**
**are in food poverty. We also**
**support a local food pantry: we**
**have sourced accommodation for**
**it and assist with publicity and**
**referrals.**
**2.**
**The Charity operates a weekly**
**Community Café (see above). This**
**reduces food waste and benefits**
**the environment since the meals**
**are manly created from donated**
**food that would otherwise have**
**gone to waste. 50-60 local people**
**attend and receive a nourishing 3**
**course meal cooked from scratch**
**by our volunteers. Donated food**
**not used for the meal is taken**
**home by attendees. The Café**
**reduces food poverty as no charge**
**is made for the meal or food taken**| ||**away. The weekly lunch allieviates**| |---|---| ||**loneliness and social isolation,**| ||**especially among older people –**| ||**many attendees are aged between**| ||**75 and 95. Those without transport**| ||**are often brought to the café by**| ||**our volunteers.**| |**3.**|**Our Befriending Service has made**| ||**a great difference to the lives of**| ||**approximately 65 lonely or socially**| ||**isolated older people during this**| ||**reporting year. Volunteers have**| ||**regular face to face contact with**| ||**clients either at their homes or at a**| ||**cafe or other community venue.**| ||**Where possible we facilitate their**| ||**introduction to social groups**| ||**where they can make friends.**| |**4.**|**We also hold, or are involved in, a**| ||**number of coffee mornings held at**| ||**local venues (such as a sheltered**| ||**accommodation complex in**| ||**Tarleton) where older people can**| ||**socialise. Those who are lonely or**| ||**socially isolated are supported to**| ||**attend by our volunteers, who**| ||**often bring then to and from the**| ||**venue.**| |**5.**|**We operate two weekly Dementia-**| ||**friendly music, movement and**| ||**social group for people with**| ||**cognitive impairment and their**| ||**carers. Again, people with mobility**| ||**issues or who are lonely or**| ||**socially isolated have been**| ||**assisted to attend these events.**| ||**The sessions benefit those**| ||**attending greatly, as excellent**| ||**feedback shows.**| |6.|The Charity produces a Newsletter| ||every two months which provides| ||local people with helpful information| ||and news about forthcoming events.| ||As there is no longer a local| ||newspaper, this is all the more| ||appreciated.| |7.|In this reporting year, we have been| ||able to extend our field of operations| ||to include North Meols where we| ||deliver our Befriending and Dementia| ||services| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |Other||**n/a**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Charity is solvent with no financial**
**concerns**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The Trustees calculate the sum required**
**to continue operations for a period of 3**
**months**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**none**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**none**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Donations, principally received at the**
**Community Cafe.**
**Grant income**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**1.**
**Loss of, or inability to recruit,**
**sufficient volunteers including**
**Trustees**
**2.**
**Fall in donations**| |Other||**n/a**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution – Charitable Incorporated**
**Organisation whose only voting members**
**are its charity trustees**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**The Board reviews the skills needed, and**
**recruitment is by advertisement followed**
**by a panel interview and references. In**
**the case of a potential Trustee known to**
**have the right skills, there may be an**
**invitation to apply. New Trustees are**
**appointed by a resolution passed at a**
**properly convened meeting of charity**
**trustees.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**New Trustees undergo a comprehensive**
**induction process overseen by the Chair,**
**which covers information about the**
**Charity, finance reports, duties of**
**Trustees, policies and procedural**
**documents, Board roles etc. They are**
**also provided with a Trustee Manual**
**containing copies of relevant documents**
**including the Constitution and Charity**
**Commission guidance.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The Charity has a Board of 7 Trustees,**
**who oversee the work of 70+ volunteers.**
**From June 2024, the Charity has**
**benefited from the support of a part time**
**(21 hours per week) Volunteer Co-**
**ordinator who is the only renumerated**
**person working in the Charity**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Helpers| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1196962| Charity’s principal address 152, Hesketh Lane, Tarleton, Preston, PR4 6AS ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||Vivien Mumford|Chair||Whole period||Board of Trustees| |||Diane Mackley|Secretary||Wholeperiod||Board of Trustees| |||David Dickinson|Trustee||01/04/24 - 31/07/24||Board of Trustees| |||Stephen Kirby|Trustee||Wholeperiod||Board of Trustees| |||Marcia Worrall|Trustee||24/10/24 to date||Board of Trustees| |||ChristySawyer|Trustee||Wholeperiod||| |||Peter Halls|Trustee||Wholeperiod||Board of Trustees| |||James Gerald
Gallimore|Treasurer||Whole period||Board of Trustees| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| |||Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
**n/a**|||||| |||**Director name**|||||| |||**n/a**|||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**n/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** n/a ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **n/a** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Vivien K. Mumford **Full name(s)** Vivien K. Mumford **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 20/10/25 **Charity Name Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Helperspersers** **Charity Name No (if any) Hesketh Bank and Tarleton Helperspersers 1196962 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2024 31/03/2025 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Grant Income
**-**
Unrestricted Donations
**2,160**
Unrestricted Donations(Café)
**10,930**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,090**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 13,090**
**A3 Payments**
CommunityCafé
**8,200**
Foodbank
**540**
Newsletter(Printing&Delivery)
**399**
**500**
Befriender Costs includingDBS
**946**
Miscellaneous Costs
**390**
Printing
**303**
**-**
Memory Choir Sessions including Hall Hire
**-**
Volunteer Coordinator Costs
**504**
BabyUnit includingroom rental
**841**
Grant application support
**360**
Accounts checkingand verification
**180**
School Project
**201**
Volunteer Trainingcosts
**313**
Southport ATTACK support
**303**
Art Project
**110**
**_Sub total_ 14,090**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 14,090**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 1,000**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**8,603**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 7,603**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
Public Liability
Insurance/equipment/general
Age of Inspiration Events including Hall
Hire
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**18,888**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,888**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,888**
**845**
**-**
**2,124**
**-**
**-**
**237**
**-**
**-**
**9,753**
**16,870**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,329**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,329**
**- 11,441**
**-**
**23,412**
**11,971**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**18,888**
**2,160**
**10,930**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,978**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,978**
**9,045**
**540**
**2,523**
**500**
**946**
**627**
**303**
**-**
**9,753**
**17,374**
**1,341**
**360**
**180**
**201**
**313**
**303**
**110**
**44,419**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,419**
**- 12,441**
**-**
**32,015**
**19,574**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**18,888**|**31,265**| ||||**2,160**|**1,849**| ||||**10,930**|**10,207**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**31,978**|**43,321**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**31,978**|**43,321**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**9,045**|**9,898**| ||||**540**|**780**| ||||**2,523**|**1,972**| ||||**500**|**192**| ||||**946**|**414**| ||||**627**|**221**| ||||**303**|**27**| ||||**-**|**998**| ||||**9,753**|**3,349**| ||||**17,374**|**-**| ||||**1,341**|**-**| ||||**360**|**-**| ||||**180**|**-**| ||||**201**|**-**| ||||**313**|**-**| ||||**303**|**-**| ||||**110**|**-**| ||||**44,419**|**17,851**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**44,419**|**17,851**| |||||| ||**- 11,441**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 12,441**|**25,470**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**23,412**||**32,015**|**6,545**| ||**11,971**||**19,574**|**32,015**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Donations
Grants and Restricted Donations
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**7,603**
**-**
**-**
**7,603**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**11,971**
**-**
**11,971**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |Signature|Print Name
Vivien K Mumford|Date of
approval| |---|---|---| ||Vivien K Mumford|11/09/25| |||| ## ##